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|Abstract2=While the ‘grades’ of comparison is a familiar term, it is argued in this paper that a more thorough-going appreciation of a metaphor which originally had to do with steps allows us better to understand the development of the terminology of the grades of comparison as it moved from the Latin grammarians, especially Donatus and the commentators on his original work, into the medieval vernacular Irish and Welsh grammars. The architectural basis of the terminology, then, once identified, may help to clarify the use of such terms as Old Irish <em>etargaire</em> and how in Welsh <em>grwndwal</em> (lit.) ‘ground-wall’ came to be used of the positive form of the adjective. | |Abstract2=While the ‘grades’ of comparison is a familiar term, it is argued in this paper that a more thorough-going appreciation of a metaphor which originally had to do with steps allows us better to understand the development of the terminology of the grades of comparison as it moved from the Latin grammarians, especially Donatus and the commentators on his original work, into the medieval vernacular Irish and Welsh grammars. The architectural basis of the terminology, then, once identified, may help to clarify the use of such terms as Old Irish <em>etargaire</em> and how in Welsh <em>grwndwal</em> (lit.) ‘ground-wall’ came to be used of the positive form of the adjective. | ||
|SubjectHeadings=Middle Welsh;Old Irish;Old English | |SubjectHeadings=Middle Welsh;Old Irish;Old English | ||
|TagText=Auraicept na n-éces; Ars Ambrosiana; Gramadegau penceirddiaid | |TagText=Auraicept na n-éces; Ars Ambrosiana; Gramadegau penceirddiaid; In Donati artem maiorem (Muiredach) | ||
|TagPeople=Ælfric; Donatus; Sedulius Scottus; Tatwine | |TagPeople=Ælfric; Donatus; Sedulius Scottus; Tatwine; Muiredach of Auxerre and Metz | ||
|Tag=comparative; Donatus; equative; foundations; grades of comparison | |Tag=comparative; Donatus; equative; foundations; grades of comparison; metaphors; positive; steps; superlative; | ||
|Contributors=Russell (Paul) | |Contributors=Russell (Paul) | ||
|Contribution=Distinctions, foundations and steps: the metaphors of the grades of comparison in medieval Latin, Irish and Welsh grammatical texts | |Contribution=Distinctions, foundations and steps: the metaphors of the grades of comparison in medieval Latin, Irish and Welsh grammatical texts |
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Russell, Paul, “Distinctions, foundations and steps: the metaphors of the grades of comparison in medieval Latin, Irish and Welsh grammatical texts”, Language & History 63 (2020): 47–72.
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